Despite telehealth's growing popularity, health insurance companies reimburse 40 percent less for telehealth services than for in-person care, as found in a Health Care Cost Institute policy brief, according to Forbes.
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Boston-based Massachusetts General Hospital researchers investigated the effect of physician empathy on outcomes and medical care satisfaction.
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Primary care physicians in states that expanded Medicaid are seeing substantially more Medicaid patients than those in states that did not, according to a report from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and athenahealth.
Venous thromboembolism is a leading cause of hospital readmissions after total joint replacements. But in many cases, VTE is preventable if patients comply with postoperative protocol; they often do at the hospital, but once patients return home it's harder to…
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The 2016 Top Doctors list once again includes a number of physicians from Danbury (Conn.) Orthopedics, according to a Ridgefield's Hamlet Hub report.
Many physicians encourage specific drugs on social media without disclosing their relationships to the drug companies, according to STAT.
Various hospitals have encountered major data breaches, compromising patient care and causing hefty financial losses, according to Los Alamos Daily Post.
While Americans feel the economy and jobs as well as foreign policy are bigger issues in this election year, there are varying opinions about how the next president of the United States should tackle healthcare, according to a Kaiser Family…
Can IBM's Watson close the knowledge gap between big data and analytics in healthcare?